printing - Extended printer information in Java

Question

I'm trying to get some information about the printers on my system.
On Windows and Linux, with this code, only the PrinterName attribute is filled:

PrintService[] printServices = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null,null);
for( PrintService printService : printServices ) {
    log.info("Found print service: "+printService);
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterName.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterLocation.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterMakeAndModel.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterMessageFromOperator.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterMoreInfo.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterMoreInfoManufacturer.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterState.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterStateReasons.class));
    log.info(printService.getAttribute(PrinterURI.class));
}

After using the toArray() function on it...

log.info("Found print service: "+printService);
for( Attribute a : printService.getAttributes().toArray() ) {
    log.info("* "+a.getName()+": "+a);
}

...this is the result:

Found print service: Win32 Printer : Brother MFC-9420CN BR-Script3
* color-supported: supported
* printer-name: Brother MFC-9420CN BR-Script3
* printer-is-accepting-jobs: accepting-jobs
* queued-job-count: 0

How do I get more information, like the printer comment?

Answer 1

There are other PrintServiceAttribute implementations, but if you want to fetch more...

This is a dirty code only, you can also fetch unsupported values for doc flavor:

PrintService[] printServices =
        PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null, null); //get printers

for (PrintService printService : printServices) {
    System.out.println("Found print service: " + printService);

    Set<Attribute> attribSet = new LinkedHashSet<Attribute>();

    Class<? extends Attribute>[] supportedAttributeCategories = (Class<? extends Attribute>[]) printService.getSupportedAttributeCategories();

    for (Class<? extends Attribute> category : supportedAttributeCategories) {
        DocFlavor[] flavors = printService.getSupportedDocFlavors();
        for (DocFlavor flavor : flavors) {
            Object supportedAttributeValues = printService.getSupportedAttributeValues(category, flavor, printService.getAttributes());
            if (supportedAttributeValues instanceof Attribute) {
                Attribute attr = (Attribute) supportedAttributeValues;
                attribSet.add(attr);
            } else if (supportedAttributeValues != null) {
                Attribute[] attrs = (Attribute[]) supportedAttributeValues;
                for (Attribute attr : attrs) {
                    attribSet.add(attr);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    for (Attribute attr : attribSet) {
        System.out.println(attr.getName());

        System.out.println(printService.getDefaultAttributeValue(attr.getCategory()));
    }
}

Note: You may see repeated values, but they can be filtered.